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Probably just served to alienate the viewers ever further on top of all the other changes (and being thrown around the schedule) in the last couple of years.

I'm in Scotland right now (in fact, a stone's throw from STV's headquarters...) and just seen a trailer on STV and noticed the clips in it are 50i- a shame we aren't able to actually see it that way though the streaming.

A good couple of examples of the "fake" music the show used in these early episodes, at least they're actual songs rather than iffy musak, so far anyway. I admit I never noticed the non-use of licenced music at the time I was watching in the mid-late 90s, but it will probably stick out now I know about it, especially after watching 80s/90s repeats of other soaps which made heavy use of it.

Are we sure these are the original tracks we're hearing? Is it possible it was originally commercial music which has since been replaced with library tracks because of cost/copyright? I'm surprised if Channel 4 didn't have a commercial music agreement in place, so wonder if these are just re-dubbed versions?

It's a practice that still happens every now and then when a show is made available to alternative networks or platforms - Gavin & Stacey's DVD release, for example, replaces a handful of commercial tracks because they couldn't afford to clear them (whereas the BBC's blanket agreement still covers them for any repeats on BBC platforms), and the DVD release of the first (BBC) season of Birds of a Feather has a few scenes dubbed terribly with loud library music in an attempt to drown out the commercial tracks underneath from the original broadcast. Presumably the "clean" versions of those scenes weren't available.

Just a thought.